quote:Thats because it was the logo during two national championship wins and a huge amount of success. People aren't buying LSU gear for the damn toonces, they buy it b/c LSU is relevant again, not just in football.

They undoubtedly know this...the whole spiel about it generating the most money is just the public response to combat complaints against the logo to save face.

I heard from someone I know in the athletic department that the logo in the OP, especially with the hurricane has been unofficial retired. I read on here once a similar story to what I heard first hand.

quote:young black men who play basketball don't want some lame toonces logo

Thanks for your update on the status of "young, black men"

I'm sure that's exactly why highly touted recruits (which come in all variety of colors) don't play here...because of a tiger head on the side of the shorts...

...It's probably got nothing to do with the fact that we don't play for conference championships, national championships, or send many players to the NBA, or have a rich basketball tradition like oh say Duke, Carolina, Kentucky, UCLA, et. al.

Yeah, it's gotta be the shorts. We'd have gotten Harrison Barnes and Kyrie Irving for SURE if it wasn't for toonces...

The reason they use it, over the other ones, is cause they needed something copyrighted. None of the other logos are copyrighted so they have a hard time making money off them. That's the reasoning behind toonces.